What does airbnb.com track?
Before any consent, airbnb.com loaded 2 tracking companies and set 1 advertising or analytics cookie.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 56% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.airbnb.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 4
- Cookies in total
- 12
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
1 of the 4 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Google Ads1 requestAdvertising
ad.doubleclick.net
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- muscache.com169 requestsUnclassified
a0.muscache.com
- Google2 requestsFunctional
www.google.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _gcl_au, from Google, lasting about 3 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | Advertising | airbnb.com | 3 months |
| _user_attributes | Unclassified | airbnb.com | 6 months |
| bev | Unclassified | airbnb.com | 13 months |
| cfrmfctr | Unclassified | airbnb.com | 6 months |
| everest_cookie | Unclassified | airbnb.com | 13 months |
| frmfctr | Unclassified | airbnb.com | 6 months |
| jitney_client_session_created_at | Unclassified | www.airbnb.com | 6 months |
| jitney_client_session_id | Unclassified | www.airbnb.com | 6 months |
| jitney_client_session_updated_at | Unclassified | www.airbnb.com | 6 months |
| previousTab | Unclassified | www.airbnb.com | 6 months |
| country | Functional | airbnb.com | Session |
| datadome | Necessary | airbnb.com | 12 months |
The page also wrote 2 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
Understanding this page
- How to see which cookies and trackers a website loads
A hands-on walkthrough for checking what a site sets before you've clicked anything, using Chrome and Firefox's built-in tools, plus how CookieTosser automates the same check every month.
- What counts as valid cookie consent in the EU
The rules that actually govern cookie banners — the ePrivacy Directive, the GDPR consent standard, the Planet49 ruling, the strictly-necessary exemption, and what "reject" has to offer compared with "accept.
- Consent management platforms explained
What a CMP banner is actually doing behind the scenes, how the IAB's TCF standard and Google's Consent Mode v2 fit in, and why a banner being present is no guarantee that nothing loads before you answer it.